Security Best Practices

Best practices should be observed at all times, in order to ensure the security of Couchbase Server itself, the media it uses for data-persistence, the internal and external networks on which it resides, and the applications that query it.

Securing Couchbase Server

Security must be enforced — in order to protect data from being stolen, eavesdropped upon, or corrupted — throughout the entire Couchbase Server-environment: this environment includes the internal memory, processing, and storage-facilities of individual server-nodes within a cluster; the network across which the nodes communicate with one another; and the network beyond the cluster-perimeter.
Security procedures must be checked constantly; and should be upgraded with frequency.

Within the Cluster

On each node of the Couchbase Server-cluster, essential security measures include: